Evatt was built out in the early 1970s and a lot of the shutters here went on later, fitted to brick veneer homes that were never designed with them in mind. That combination shows up in the repair work. The house has settled, the opening is no longer quite square, and a shutter that ran cleanly for years starts catching on one side.
We cover all of Evatt in the 2617 postcode and the surrounding streets through Spence, McKellar and Melba. Evatt sits in the northern half of Belconnen, so we usually take the whole area in one run rather than making a trip for a single call.
The housing stock is mostly single storey brick veneer on standard blocks, with aluminium window frames and a fair amount of later renovation. Shutters tend to be retrofitted, and the fixings are doing more work than they were originally specified for.
A good share of Evatt shutters are now into their second or third decade. When a motor or a control unit fails on an older setup, the honest question is whether the rest of the installation is worth keeping. Often the box, curtain and rails are sound and only the drive needs changing. We tell you which of those you are looking at before any work starts, so you are not paying to modernise something that was working fine.
